Dry roast the horse gram and then pressure cook till soft and keep it aside. Now in a pan take few spoons of oil and fry the masala items for few min. Then grind them finely along with 1 1/2 tblsp of cooked horse gram and coconut.

In a pan take a spoon of oil and crackle mustard and fry along with red chillies, garlic and chopped onion. Now add the ground paste to it and fry till good smell comes from it. Add the remaining cooked horse gram, tamarind extract, jaggery and salt to it and allow it to boil for a while. Finally garnish with curry leaves.

Horse gram soup or rasam is ready to serve. :) Serve it hot with steamed rice and chips or just have it as a hot soup. Happy making. :)

Now for the award:

I should really thank my sweet blogger friends for nominating me for the award. Its absolutely nice of you to encourage me so much.

Thanks to Dhanyaa Rajeesh of Amma's adukkal for passing the cretive blogger award.

And my best buddy Parita of Parita's world has passed me the ABC tag :) Thank you dear.

So here it goes

The Rules:

1. Link the person who tagged you.2. Post the rules on your blog.3. Share the ABCs of you.4. Tag 4 people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.5. Let the 4 tagged people know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.6. Do not tag the same person repeatedly but try to tag different people, so that there is a big network of bloggers doing this tag.

Hmm thats some powerful soup, no wonder you are so powerful blogger..hmmm i guess we can start a powerful blogger award..what say ?U dont like brinjals? i love them :) hehehehe we gals..even if not married always have names in mind for our children..hehehe :)

hi nitya, nice to meet you, you have a lovely blog here!!, thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a beautiful comment too...I like horse gram, mum used to make sundal in this and used to use it is rasam & sambhar, hubby doesn't like it!!, so i use it without his knowledge, They say it produces lot of heat in the body! (ayurveda), so this is a good soup, and a must try one during the cold winter days, don's you think have book marked it.., nice horse design too.., please do come again, and me too.. will check out your posts..thanks again